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Table 1.

Tendon cellular content

Cell type	Alternative name	Location/Incidence	Function	Reference
Tenocyte	Tendon-derived cell (TDC) Tendon fibroblast Tenoblast	Tendon/enthesis tissue	Building up and maintaining tendon structure; interacting with collagen	Fu et al²⁸ Mienaltowski et al²⁹
Tendon stem/progenitor cell	Tendon stem cell (TSC) Tendon-derived stem cell (TDSC) Tendon-derived progenitor cell (TDPC)	Debatable	Multipotent and clonogenic, tissue homeostasis and repair; exact involvement is to be elucidated	Kohler at al³⁰ Bi et al³¹
Perivascular cell	Pericyte Tendon mesenchymal stem cell (TMSC)	Vessel, paratenon, epitenon, tendon sheets	Regulation of stem cells; regeneration of various tissues; immunomodulation	Tempfer et al³²
Intra-fascicular matrix cell	Endotenon Sheet stem cell	Around tendon fascicles Endotenon sheets	Maintenance; exact identity and function are to be elucidated	Mienaltowski et al²⁹ Thorpe et al³³